Not all software that supports zoned storage allocates and submits zoned
writes in LBA order per zone. Introduce the REQ_NO_WRITE_LOCK flag such
that submitters of zoned writes can indicate that zoned writes are
allocated and submitted in LBA order per zone.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
---
block/blk-flush.c | 3 ++-
include/linux/blk_types.h | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
index e73dc22d05c1..038350ed7cce 100644
--- a/block/blk-flush.c
+++ b/block/blk-flush.c
@@ -336,7 +336,8 @@ static void blk_kick_flush(struct request_queue *q, struct blk_flush_queue *fq,
flush_rq->internal_tag = first_rq->internal_tag;
flush_rq->cmd_flags = REQ_OP_FLUSH | REQ_PREFLUSH;
- flush_rq->cmd_flags |= (flags & REQ_DRV) | (flags & REQ_FAILFAST_MASK);
+ flush_rq->cmd_flags |= flags &
+ (REQ_FAILFAST_MASK | REQ_NO_ZONE_WRITE_LOCK | REQ_DRV);
flush_rq->rq_flags |= RQF_FLUSH_SEQ;
flush_rq->end_io = flush_end_io;
/*
diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
index 0bad62cca3d0..68f7934d8fa6 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
@@ -416,6 +416,12 @@ enum req_flag_bits {
__REQ_PREFLUSH, /* request for cache flush */
__REQ_RAHEAD, /* read ahead, can fail anytime */
__REQ_BACKGROUND, /* background IO */
+ /*
+ * Do not use zone write locking. Setting this flag is only safe if
+ * the request submitter allocates and submit requests in LBA order per
+ * zone.
+ */
+ __REQ_NO_ZONE_WRITE_LOCK,
__REQ_NOWAIT, /* Don't wait if request will block */
__REQ_POLLED, /* caller polls for completion using bio_poll */
__REQ_ALLOC_CACHE, /* allocate IO from cache if available */
@@ -448,6 +454,8 @@ enum req_flag_bits {
#define REQ_PREFLUSH (__force blk_opf_t)(1ULL << __REQ_PREFLUSH)
#define REQ_RAHEAD (__force blk_opf_t)(1ULL << __REQ_RAHEAD)
#define REQ_BACKGROUND (__force blk_opf_t)(1ULL << __REQ_BACKGROUND)
+#define REQ_NO_ZONE_WRITE_LOCK \
+ (__force blk_opf_t)(1ULL << __REQ_NO_ZONE_WRITE_LOCK)
#define REQ_NOWAIT (__force blk_opf_t)(1ULL << __REQ_NOWAIT)
#define REQ_POLLED (__force blk_opf_t)(1ULL << __REQ_POLLED)
#define REQ_ALLOC_CACHE (__force blk_opf_t)(1ULL << __REQ_ALLOC_CACHE)
